WHERE'S SIMON KNIGHT?
New Idea|March 16, 2020
SIMON’S BIZARRE DISAPPEARANCE 15 YEARS AGO LOOKS SET FOR A NEW REVIEW BY NSW POLICE
John Burfitt
WHERE'S SIMON KNIGHT?

With his sparkling blue eyes, shock of red hair, beaming smile and handsome features, Simon Knight was hard to miss.

So recalls Simon’s close friend and one-time partner, playwright Lachlan Philpott, as the 15th anniversary of Simon’s peculiar disappearance on a wintry Sydney night in 2005 looms in the coming months.

“Simon was the kind of guy who had a real twinkle in his eye when he smiled, and was also very strong-minded,” Lachlan recalls.

The pair dated in the mid-’90s. After they broke up, they became flatmates in Melbourne and remained close. Simon later returned to Sydney, where he worked as a chef.

“We were like brothers and he was the kind of person who would stand up for his principles. He was also a very sensitive man, but he had a secretive side and you often didn’t really know what was going on with him.”

That secret side is what Lachlan fears could well have come at a high cost. On July 21, 2005, Simon, then aged 32, left the house he was sharing with friends and checked into an inner-city Sydney motel for the night. He had with him an expensive mountain bike, and had withdrawn $500 from his bank account.

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